When Samsung first announced the Galaxy S4, the company touted it to be the world's first octa-core Smartphone. Their clever marketing tactics worked and people haplessly pursued the device, only to learn that while 8 physical cores are present, only 4 of them can work at any given time, making the Galaxy S4 no better than any other quad-core Smartphone.

Fast forward to November, and Chinese phone maker Zopo has revealed that they will be announcing the world's first true Octa-core Smartphone, using a chipset made by none other than MediaTek (who would have thought a year ago that MediaTek would come to threaten the Ivy league). A countdown timer on Zopo's website indicates that the official announcement will take place on November 21st. Perhaps MediaTek will launch the MT6592 octa-core processor on the same date, as the company had promised more details related to their new chipset in the month of November.